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Legal Aspects of Protection of Animals against Cruelty
Bartoňová, Tereza ; Fabšíková, Tereza (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
Legal Aspects of Protection of Animals against Cruelty Abstract The diploma thesis provides a comprehensive overview of the current legislation on the protection of animals against cruelty at the international, European and national level. The treatise is divided into an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion summarizing the findings. The first introductory chapter is divided into three sub-chapters and is devoted to the concept of animal rights itself, including the definition of the elementary terms "animal protection against cruelty" and "animal welfare", then ethical, especially religious and philosophical starting points for legislative protection of animals against cruelty, and finally briefly summarizes the historical relationship between humans and animals. The second chapter discusses the transnational regulation of the legal protection of animals against cruelty. Its first sub-chapter is devoted to international agreements, and primarily to European agreements adopted under the authority of the Council of Europe. The second sub-chapter summarizes the legislation of the European Union adopted in the field of animal protection, including historical excursus and current regulation. The most extensive chapter is the third chapter dealing with the national regulation of the protection of animals...
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Legal regulation of treating animals in human care
Židlická, Veronika ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Franková, Martina (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with legal regulation of the treatment of animals under human care. It provides a comprehensive overview of international legislation, European legislation and also Czech laws. On the international level it describes fundamental conventions of the Council of Europe. On the level of European Union this thesis does not omit primary law of the European Union, secondary legislation as well as conceptual tools. On the national level it tries to outline the key regulations governing the treatment of animals. Next it deals with definition of an animal, creature and wildlife, and categorizations of animals. It also also includes a civil nature of the animal. The major Czech law governing the main ways of dealing with animals in captivity this thesis describes the act no. 246/1992 Coll., On Protection of Animals against Cruelty. After defining possible ways of the treatment it does not forget to acquaint with the possible torts for breach of the requirements for the protection of animals, including act no. 40/2009 Coll., The Criminal Code. In conclusion, it briefly describes the status of bodies whose activities relate to the protection of animals.
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Legal regulation of treatment of wild animals
Kolečkářová, Eliška ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Franková, Martina (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the legal regulation of the treatment with wild animals. It compares different terms used in legal regulation of protection of animals. It specified differences between concept of an animal in private law and public law. The diploma thesis is focused on possibilities of gaining ownership to the wild animals, proving origin of animals bred in human care. It concerns with legal regulation of treatment with handicap animals. The diploma thesis analyzes preparation and realization of Action and Management Plans and is also concerned about protection of wild animals against cruelty.
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Legal regulation of the treatment of animals under human care
Slabová, Tereza ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Derlich, Stanislav (referee)
1 Abstract Diploma thesis: Legal regulation of the treatment of animals under human care This diploma thesis deals with legal regulation of the treatment of animals under human care at the national, international and European Union levels. It is systematically divided into four main chapters. The first chapter deals with the definition of relevant animal protection concepts, in particular defines the difference between the concepts of animal, creature and wildlife, it also gives an overview of further categorization of animals such as experimental animals, farm animals, animals breed for hobby, handicapped animals, animals that need special care from human, wandering and deserted animals. In my second chapter, I attempted to outline the relationship between national and international law. Firstly is the diploma thesis devoted to presents five most important agreements adopted within Council of Europeat international level, then mentions the Universal Declaration for protection of animals adopted within the United Nations organizations. In other part of the second chapter I devote to legislation at European Union level describing primary and secondary legislation, as well as conceptual tools. At the level of the Czech Republic, thesis divides the legislation dealing with direct protection of animals against...
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Legislation of animal experiment
Kropíková, Karolína ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Derlich, Stanislav (referee)
This diploma thesis analyzes legislation of executing animal experiments and protection of experimental animals. It is divided into five chapters, each of one is focused on specific area of the topic. The first chapter describes legal sources on international, European and state level. The chapter is closed by a subchapter about judicial activity. The second chapter is focused on principles of animal experiments and its two subchapters describe the 3R concept and legal principles of animal experiments. The third chapter concerns theoretical aspects and key concepts of animal experiment. It is divided into four subchapters, which involve the term of animal experiment, welfare, status of living animal in a legal system of Czech Republic and alternatives to animal experiments. Each of this unit is divided into subchapters, which are focused on specific areas. The fourth chapter concerns six subchapters, which describes the authorization for using animals for experiments, persons working with experimental animals, acceptable experiment, experimental animals, project of experiment and executing experiments. Each of this units is divided into subchapters according to focus of each chapter. The last fifth chapter describes delict responsibility and it is divided into two subsections - responsibility in...
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Legal protection of farm animals against cruelty
Kudernová, Anna ; Žákovská, Karolina (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
This diploma thesis entitled Legal protection of farm animals against cruelty aims to provide comprehensive overview of legal provisions for the protection of farm animals, authorities providing this protection and historical bases of the way humans interact with animals. The thesis has 7 chapters. The first chapter defines the key terms for this work, animals and farm animals. The second charter pursues the development of the human-animal relationship and philosophical, religious and other influences affecting this relationship. The third chapter gives an overview of the first legislation dealing with animal cruelty. We can find International treaties and European Union law on the protection of farm animals against cruelty in the fourth charter. Then the thesis focuses on the current Czech legislation, the individual areas of animal treatment regulated by law and in particular the Act no. 246/1992 Coll., On protection of animals against cruelty. The sixth chapter defines the scope of the individual animal protection authorities and finally it provils the overview of the possibilities of sanctions imposed on persons in order to protect farm animals.
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Advantages and risks of introducing animal legal personality into Czech law system
Houdek, Pavel ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Derlich, Stanislav (referee)
Advantages and risks of introducing animal legal personality into Czech law system The topic of my thesis is animal legal personality and consideration of advantages as well as negative aspects of introducing it into the Czech law. The aim of this work is to examine whether the animal legal personality is a solution that could lead to higher animal protection. In order to assess the benefits and risks of introducing legal personality of animals, I analyze the current legal status and investigate whether animals have any rights today. Furthermore, I concentrate on whether the integration of the legal personality of the animals into the legal system is at all possible, and seek such form that would make the integration acceptable. The work is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter I examine the history of the legal protection of animals with a focus on its development in the Czech lands. The second chapter is a summary of current legislation of animal rights, especially in the Czech Republic but also in other European countries. There is a sub-chapter here dealing with international law that has a direct impact on the Czech law. In the last sub-chapter I seek an answer whether, according to the applicable law of the Czech Republic, the animals already have any rights today. In the third chapter I...
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Legal regulation of treating animals in human care
Židlická, Veronika ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Franková, Martina (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with legal regulation of the treatment of animals under human care. It provides a comprehensive overview of international legislation, European legislation and also Czech laws. On the international level it describes fundamental conventions of the Council of Europe. On the level of European Union this thesis does not omit primary law of the European Union, secondary legislation as well as conceptual tools. On the national level it tries to outline the key regulations governing the treatment of animals. Next it deals with definition of an animal, creature and wildlife, and categorizations of animals. It also also includes a civil nature of the animal. The major Czech law governing the main ways of dealing with animals in captivity this thesis describes the act no. 246/1992 Coll., On Protection of Animals against Cruelty. After defining possible ways of the treatment it does not forget to acquaint with the possible torts for breach of the requirements for the protection of animals, including act no. 40/2009 Coll., The Criminal Code. In conclusion, it briefly describes the status of bodies whose activities relate to the protection of animals.
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